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Chase Me Home

Bridge to Abingdon Series, Book 3

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Chase Me Home

Auteur(s): Tatum West
Narrateur(s): Alexander Cendese, Tor Thom
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Elias: I broke Zane Chase's heart on the night of my high school graduation. I played straight for years, pushing love away at every turn. I created a picture perfect life - I built a billion dollar company, married a good girl, had a kid. I hid myself for decades, and I got exactly what I wanted.

But it all came crashing down. My company fired me, the wife ditched my gay a$s and took our daughter with her. The only place to go is home. My first night Abingdon, I run right into Zane. His crystal blue eyes and sculpted body wake something deep inside of me.

Zane: Elias Spaulding is a total d*ck. He's rude and presumptuous - seems he never learned any damn manners. He's got wild ideas, fast cars, and more money than God. He's everything a wild-child, punk artist like me should hate. But he's the most fascinating man I've met in years. And deep down, he's the same boy who stole that first kiss from me in the darkness of my dorm room.

Beneath his bad attitude is a man who wants a real life - a home, a family, someone to love. I was never the kind to settle down, not since I left for New York. But something's telling me that Elias might be worth the trouble.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Tatum West (P)2019 Tantor Romance Sincère
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I really enjoyed this piece. The story isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. It’s a great blend of love, mystery/suspense, angst and personal growth. I love it when y’all here is inclusivity with parents and children and this story having children with cognitive delays and autism was really amazing.
The sweetness of the ending and the inclusion of malcom really made me swoon. Lovely piece and looking forward to more.

Lovely

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I’ve been jumping around the series due to the reviews. I wasn’t impressed with the first, skipped to the one with Nikki Rippon because the description interested me, read Noble and Strong and then went back to learn the backstory of the Baker (which I have not found yet). The characters are interesting. One has a daughter and there is a “sudden family” but there is a break to “think about it.” Unfortunately, the reader does not learn about the “thinking about it” and what the characters feel. This author tends to “tell” rather than “show” which keeps the reader away from the emotional involvement with the characters. I didn’t find the treatment of the neurodivergent characters as upsetting as the other reviewer did; I think it’s handled as well as expected as we learn the language of how to discuss this topic. Considering the publishing date (2019), it was ahead of its time.

More straightforward than the others

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This book, unlike the previous in the series, is all over the place. I appreciate the author’s attempt at inclusivity and tackling the ableism attitudes often surrounding children (and adults) with different abilities/needs (read “special education”). As one of the therapists who often works with children on the autism spectrum and who supervises others who do also, as well as advocating for the needs of differently abled children within the school system, I understand the frustration of this parent, especially coming into his child’s life so late and trying to draw parallels from his own journey in retrospective to the journey of his daughter. That being said, the relationship between the main characters is odd and there is a lot of judgement on the part of Zane for how Elias is trying to cope and to learn to understand his daughter. It often seems as though Zane makes his love, attention and affections contingent on Elias doing what Zane wants and “handling” Zoe the way he thinks Elias should…it’s quite emotionally manipulative of Zane. Ironically, Zane mentions how his journey with Malcolm has taught him not to be judgemental and to love people for who they are. Rather than try to support Elias along the journey to understanding his daughter and her needs and to walk alongside him through the journey, since Zane has years of experience with someone with different abilities and Elias has been thrown into the deep end, Zane alternates between taking over and thus disempowering Elias to feel he can also parent his daughter, and “tough love” “I’ll leave you (take a break) to force you to learn how to step up and figure it out on your own”. Zane’s response - getting involved with Zoe and then withdrawing - is actually setting Elias up for failure and more challenges, given Zane’s supposed understanding of children on the spectrum needing consistency and routine, and their attachment to people; especially for this kid who is actually voicing (which so many cannot) that she feels everyone leaves her or doesn’t want her. The mother’s relationship with her daughter and ex-husband is equally bizarre. Some explanation and education- which Elias doesn’t seem to be getting from anyone and doesn’t seem to be offered or suggested, including by the specialists he hires/accesses (psychiatrist, occupational therapist, pediatrician, educational specialists (although I don’t hear so far they’ve had any of these at the school to support Zoe)) - would have helped Elias better understand his daughter and her needs and made him feel less alone and floundering. And no one seems to highlight that the social anxieties and difficulties that individuals on the spectrum have are real and need support also. And also no recognition that Elias, with his own social challenges and possibly on the spectrum himself, will actually need more support to help his daughter. Zane, while thinking that Elias should just be able to handle his daughter and “figure it out” (and not leave his daughter by sending her back to her Mom or putting her in a boarding school) thinks that Elias himself might be too complicated and confusing for him and he might have to leave him. Although I appreciate the author’s attempt to help us understand the lonely and often frustrating journey parents of differently abled students find themselves on far too often, I don’t know that it was done as well as it could have been, and certainly the relationship between Zane and Elias didn’t make sense in context and makes me very angry. “Interesting” too how Malcolm goes from being a non-verbal child to so sociable and gifted in the area of computers - just quirky and funny but not super needy - that isn’t really realistic. Throw in some terrible character voices by the narrator for some of the supporting characters (e.g., Zane’s mother, Zoe) and this book is mostly a miss so far unfortunately.

This book makes me angry

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